Little Falls transcript., 1887-03-11
PERSONS or oTE

GoyERNOR AMEA of Massachusetts, han
four Harvard graduates on his stan.
PAUL T1LroN, son of Theodore Tilton, is
making 3 reputation as an artist in Rome
sELIzABErH BARRErr BROWNING wrote
her first poem when she was eleven years
Did. rs. s II IS s 81 3s5 81 n y #@s.,.
HUaH o. NoRrHcoTE, son of the late Lord
tddesleigh, Is a banker in New York, and
son-in-law Of Hamilton Fish. |.
4 SENATOR SnERAAS has, it is said, since
bis boyhood, been careful collector-but
not q solicitor, Of courseof autographs
pt eminent persons. S Js II E
IT is said that James Brown Potter has
become suddenly rich by the rise Of coffee.
he is reported to have made s110, 900 in one
day and 1000 the day following.
Ir is said that the papers and MSS. Of his
father which Colonel Fred Grant il editing
will make two or three volumes Of the size
pf the Generals Memoirs"
W. G. DEsHLER, . millionaire banker Of
Columbus, O., has presented the WOmen's
Benevolent Society Of that city with a
check for one hundred Thousand dollars.
MISS LILLE Sc1DMoRE, the Washington
correspondent, is a famous traveller, and
is said to have been around the world more
than once. Her mother now lives in Japan.
Ar the annual dinner Of tho Harvard
class Of 1928 in Boston the other day eight
gentlemen were present, the youngest of
whom Is DR.. Holmes, aged seyeuty-seven
years.
MINISTER MCLANE and Ex-Governor
English, Of Connecticut, met recently in
Par1s for the first time in forty years.
EARLY In life they are said to have been
quite intimate.
IT is now learned that England's jockey,
Archer, left afortune Of more than mill
Ion dollars. Where is the horse owner who
can point to such winnings on the turfl--
Chicago Inter Ocean.
IT is said the divorced wife of ex-senator
Fair, to whom the courts gave 81, 500, 600
from her ex-husband's estate, can not find
places enough tor the interest on her mon-
ey and is rapidly adding to that sum.
: Dw1eHr L. MOODY, speaking before two
thousand peoplei in Chicago, suddenly broke
Off with: "Will the usher please let in a
little sir1 One man has got to sleep;
never can talk while man is asleep"
THE most noted entertainer III Boston is
Mrs. Clara Erskine, Clement Waters, the
art writer Her salon is modelled after that
Of the famous Nine. Recamier, and at her
receptions it is said that one is sure to
meet all the social lions Of the day.--BoSton
Herald
GENERAL SHERMAN, it is said, spends
many of his evenings at the opera and the
ater. He is very popular in New York, and
has so many invitations to dinner that he lie
obliged to keep memorandum Of them and
consult in daily order that mono may be
forgotten.
MAJOR WILLIAM DICKEY, the Oldest legis'
lator at Augusta, Me-, was brought up in
the Franklin County wilderness. He used
to walk fifteen miles to go to school in
Pennington, and helped his widowed
mother make both ends meet by ringing
the bell, sweeping out the school-house and
doing other chores.
Mr.. JOSEPH W. DRExEI, who has retired
from business and lives comfortably on his
accumulated fortune in New York, began
life on a salary Of ono dollar week. He
spent seventy-five cents of his first weeks
earnings for box OF water-colors, an6
now in later years exercises the same early
taste for pictures as an accomplished anna
teur photographer.-N. 7. HAIL.
MISS BOOTH, the editor of Harper's Bazar
expresses often her partiality for household
pets, and not only in her writings, but il
practice, carries out her belief in their use
fulness. Her tine Maltese cat, showy
combination of mouse-color and white, ap
pears in the parlors at her receptions with
a frill of white embroidery around his
neck, and seems unawed at the distin
guished guestA
THEY tell story Of Joseph 81. Choate
that at a woman's association charitable
anniversary at Cbickering Hall some year:
ago, several of the speakers failed to come
TO time, and he was called to the platform
to help out without any preparation. I"
don't know any thing about this excep
that it is good thing, but 1 am going tt
talk to you for two hours AMI half" h
said. Never was an audience better enter
tained.-M Y. Tribune